The Tarot Cards Say This Gay Man is Going to Hell

Meet Jamie Cohen. When he isn’t cuddling with his gay boyfriend in Los Angeles, he is out on the Boardwalk of Ocean City pretending to be Robocop on an Unicorn, passing out fliers to people making them “reaffirm their commitment to the gays” because a Palm Reader said he was gay and going to hell.

Cohen spent his entire week’s vacation being butthurt because he didn’t like his tarot card reading. After having campaigned across gay-friendly Los Angeles for proposition 8, he naturally comes to the Boardwalk to do the same thing. From the PressofAtlanticCity here:

OCEAN CITY – A Tarot reading on the city’s Boardwalk turned ugly this week after a fortuneteller told a gay client he was going to hell. The reading led to a loud public argument, a police investigation and an anti-discrimination petition circulating among Boardwalk merchants.

Jamie Cohen, 22, of Los Angeles, is in Ocean City this week for an annual family reunion. On Sunday, he accompanied his grandmother on her annual summer visit to Cora’s Readings on the 10th Street Boardwalk. June Mitchell, the daughter of the store’s owner, greeted Cohen and began a half-deck Tarot reading.

Almost immediately, the conversation got off on the wrong foot, Cohen said. “She said, ‘Your parents don’t accept you for who you are,'” he said. “I said, ‘No, they accept me.’ She told me they were lying.” Mitchell said the cards did not bode well for his love life, either. When Mitchell informed him he was full of negative energy, Cohen said he had heard enough. He stormed out of the store without paying the $20 fee.

Cohen accidentally left his phone under his chair. When he went back to retrieve it, he said he got into a shouting match with Mitchell, who ordered him out of the store and, in front of a crowd, called him a faggot.

“I just wanted to go home to Los Angeles after that. I wanted to crawl up in a ball with my boyfriend and not move,” Cohen said.

Mitchell, a born-again Christian, said her religious doctrine opposes homosexuality. She conceded this same doctrine does not exactly condone Tarot reading, a skill she inherited from her mother.

Mitchell said Cohen shouted at her, “I have a right to be gay!” “I said, ‘But you’re going to hell. God does not forgive people who are gay,'” Mitchell said. “All I asked him was if his family was OK with him coming out so young.”

Cohen circulated a petition and collected 154 signatures from Boardwalk merchants disavowing discrimination against gay people. He tried to present the petition to City Hall, but officials there told him it was a private dispute, he said.

City Hall told Cohen to shove that petition up his big gay ass.

So the Tarot Card reader knew this guy was gay? How? She must be psychic! Then Cohen stole the service by refusing to pay for the reading and spent the rest of his vacation shaking down every other merchant on the boardwalk to force them to affirm in writing that it was okay for Cohen to be gay and choose to cuddle with dudes in Los Angeles.

Sheesh Jamie go be gay back home and quit pestering people out here. No one cares about you, and contrary to your personal beliefs, the world doesn’t revolve around you and your sexual proclivities.